Jul 17th 2010PeterJournal & London & Painting & Shows
Saturday 17. 07. 10 Spent the morning in the studio whilst Carole and Daisy were at Pezenas market. Finished a couple of small paintings for the London show in November. Tonight up to George and Laurene”s for a swim and dinner.
Jul 8th 2010PeterPainting & Shows
Thursday 08. 07. 10 Today was the last day of our show in Baillargues. Pleasant gallery, well set up but not a lot of visitors. Thanks to all our friends for their support. Lots of lessons learned.
Jun 26th 2010PeterJournal & Painting
Saturday 26. 06. 10 There is something about Café paintings – I have done three over the last couple of years and they have all sold quickly. The one I put up on my last blog entry sold within a couple of hours to my last house guests the Watsons. Thanks Chris and Chris. Since then I have been back at my monoprints of London stations. I had had a problem with the density of the black but I have changed the coating on the plate from detergent to Gum Arabic and this seems to have solved the problem. I have also added a bit of spot colour but I’m not totally convinced. Still getting stuff ready for the arrival of Carole and Daisy and the show in Baillarges next weekend.
Jun 23rd 2010PeterJournal & Painting & Shows
Wednesday 23. 6. 10 Summer seems to be here, finally. Have been busy in the studio this week and have finished Café à midi (see above). Also have been getting ready for the show in Baillarges. Jonathan and I have had several meeting and I think that we are now organized. I am looking forward to Carole and Daisy arriving next Tuesday so next month will be busy with the show and visitors. Hopefully the weather will remain sunny.
Jun 13th 2010PeterJournal & Painting
Sunday 13. 06. 10 It has been a week of very unseasonable weather. I have been housesitting George and Laurene’s house and had had visions of spending the afternoons lounging by the pool. Sadly last Sunday was the only time when it wasn’t either raining or overcast, until yesterday. Last night was Claire’s vernissage in Baillarges so drove there with Gisèle and Jonathan. There was a good turn out and it gave Jonathan and I a good idea of what to expect when we have our show there from 3 – 10 July.
May 13th 2010PeterJournal & Painting & Shows
Thursday 13. 05. 10 Monday, had a great meeting with Kevin who thinks that he can find me a gallery in Nîmes or Montpellier for a show in July 2011. He is also interested in a series of monoprints on London train stations which I had already started. This is all very positive and exciting.
May 8th 2010PeterJournal & Painting & Travel
Friday 07. 05. 10 George found this place on the internet so today Laurene, George and I drove over towards Narbonne to visit. It is a gallery/collection put together by Piet Moget a Dutch painter who settled in this part of the world. The gallery is a huge barn-like structure originally used for wine making (there are even a couple of smaller galleries actually set in the wine vats). The space is vast, light and very airy and is run by his daughter who was there showing a bus load of students around the gallery. The collection is quite eclectic with drawings and paintings by many painters who I have never heard of but all are interesting. There are even a few sculptures.
Apr 2nd 2010PeterJournal & Painting
Friday 02. 04. 10. I think that I may have finally finished Winter Landscape so have hung it in the living room. I’ll know if it is finished if after seeing it there every day I can’t find anything that I want to change. Picked up new scooter yesterday afternoon and have been burning rubber since. It certainly has a bit more puissance than the old one.I went to my life-drawing at Octon last night and the model didn’t turn up. By general consensus we all stepped up to the plate, so to speak, except we remained clothed. The other two men in the class left – I guess it wasn’t worth staying to draw clothed people.
Mar 29th 2010PeterJournal & Painting
Monday 29. 03. 10 I have been experimenting with folded prints. I have printed an aquatint of the subject on the outside with words defining their interests on the inside. I’m hoping to do some larger monoprints exploring this idea. Anybody recognize the subject?
Mar 10th 2010PeterJournal & Painting
Wednesday 10. 03. 10 Yesterday was a very productive day. I managed to do a small (8″ x 10″) painting of Winter Landscape and I started on the first of my white van series White van before the storm. I painted both using thin linseed glazes. The small one is finished but I’m waiting for the White van to dry before working on the plane trees and the vines.